Do you want to change the world? How about beginning with
yourself? How about being trans- formed yourself first? But how
do you achieve that? Through observation. Through understanding.
With no interference or judgment on your part. Because what you
judge you cannot understand.

When you say of someone, "He's a communist,"
understanding has stopped at that moment. You slapped a label on
him. "She's a capitalist." Understanding has stopped at
that moment. You slapped a label on her, and if the label carries
undertones of approval or disapproval, so much the worse! How are
you going to understand what you disapprove of, or what you
approve of, for that matter? All of this sounds like a new world,
doesn't it? No judgment, no commentary, no attitude: one simply
observes, one studies, one watches, without the desire to change
what is. Because if you desire to change what is into what you
think SHOULD be, you no longer understand.

A dog trainer attempts to understand a dog so that he can train
the dog to perform certain tricks. A scientist observes the
behavior of ants with no further end in view than to study ants,
to learn as much as possible about them. He has no other aim.
He's not attempting to train them or get anything out of them.
He's interested in ants, he wants to learn as much as possible
about them. That's his attitude. The day you attain a posture
like that, you will experience a miracle. You will change -
effortlessly, correctly. Change will happen, you will not have to
bring it about. As the life of awareness settles on your
darkness, whatever is evil will disappear. Whatever is good will
be fostered. You will have to experience that for yourself.

- Anthony de Mello, from Awareness

Although one may be afraid of the process of dying, deep down one
very definitely has the feeling, the intuitive conviction, that
one cannot cease to exist. This feeling has been misrepresented
as the basis for the theory of rebirth, but the fact of the
matter is that there exists no actual entity to be either born or
reborn or to cease to exist.

- Ramesh Balsekar from A Net of Jewels, posted to
ANetofJewels

Faith...

How,
can one expect
to experience
the miracles,
that abound
at every glance,
if,
one lacks
the faith
that
such happenings exist...?

In Light and Encouragement... ARIAL, posted to Mystic_Spirit

Should a situation arise that you need to deal with, your action
will be clear and incisive - and more likely to be effective - if
it arises out of present moment awareness. It will not be a
reaction coming from the past conditioning of your mind but from
an intuitive response to the situation.

When you have reached a certain degree of presence, you no longer
need negativity to tell you what is needed in your life situation
- but as long as negativity is there, use it. Whenever you notice
that some form of negativity has arisen within you, look on it
not as a failure, but as a helpful signal that reminds you to be
more present.

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the
past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore.
Presence is the key. The Now is the key.

- 3 quotes by Eckhart Tolle, posted to The_Now2

Never, Never Lonely

In Liberation, you stand alone.
You stand alone
because you need no supports of any kind.

You need no supports because you have realized
that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists;
that there is nothing to support;
that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion.

So you stand alone but never, never lonely
because everywhere you look,
all you see is That,
and You are That